For anyone unclear, there are zero Canadian politicians making career decisions over trump. They are absolutely strategizing policy, but nobody’s quitting over him.
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Was pierre Jr any good
Agreed. At work I have been trying to understand how binding USMCA is and what unilateral decisions.each party can make. I think Trump is making a lot of noise but could legally be forced to follow the terms of the agreement. For example, the 2026 review seems to be the platform he should use to deal with any trade issues he has. Anyway I asked for a legal opinion but I personally think Trudeau could have ignored Trump on the tariff issue if he wanted to.
I have a trip up north later this month but this thing has me reviewing our strategy so may push the trip to next month.
Remind me how long it takes the Republicans and Democrats to choose their Presidential candidates through the primary process!
Seriously though, it depends on what process they choose to follow. Usually it takes a few months as the candidates are ultimately voted on at a party convention. However, it could happen faster as Trudeau’s resignation is not a surprise.
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There is no doubt in my mind that Junior always had the best interests of ordinary Canadians in mind in his decisions rather than those of the billionaires and corporations. Policies like universal $10 a day daycare, free dental care for lower income people and relief on certain drug costs made sense but it takes time for these programs to be fully appreciated.
Other suggestions, like waiving the consumption tax for a few months and giving $250 handouts, were ineffective and fiscally irresponsible. I am a social liberal but a fiscal conservative so a lot of his spending seemed ill-advised to me.
Fidel was better, apparently…
He was ok. He did some good things and he did some boneheaded moves. Probably par for the course. I think he performed better than average during Covid and I suspect he’s getting more blame than he deserves for many current issues. The exception being, he kept immigration too high for too long and was overly generous on allowing companies to use TFWs.
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There is more hate towards Justin than is warranted. His father also attracted the haters. It may be a bit like the hate some US folks feel towards the Kennedys as they are so privileged.
I wasn’t here for his first election, but the hate for him is bizarre. My dad has hated him from the start. I was annoyed by him, but like his policies and have a job because of him.
I’m curious to see how Christy Clark does. I thought she left her job as premier in disgrace.
I want to see Christy Clark lose the election if she wins the nomination. I am not a fan. She was my MLA during her years as BC Premier. She should run as a Conservative rather than as a Liberal federally.
The hate towards his father was likely because he was wildly left wing.
Justins hate originated because hes just a nepo baby with no redeeming features. Then he took us through covid and nobody wjns that.
I liked the father, the son is.just useless imo.though yeah, he did a great job during covid.
On CNN they claim that one of the reasons he struggled was because of the severe covid restrictions and the trucker thing. Apparently the trucker thing “paralyzed Canada”. My goodness, such poor reporting.
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Part 2 of this story. The chap was arrested here.
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Always pleased to see the investment managers for the Canadian (CPP) equivalent of US OASDI do well with their investments. The decision to increase funding and go to an active investment management approach for the CPP in the 1990s was one of the Liberal government’s smartest moves.
** The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is selling its stake in Texas-based electricity producer Calpine Corp. for cash and stock, reaping a significant windfall in a deal that will see Constellation Energy Corp.
CEG-Q +25.16%increase
acquire Calpine for US$16.4-billion.
The proceeds to CPPIB from selling its 15.75-per-cent stake are expected to be US$700-million in cash and US$1.9-billion in shares of Baltimore-based Constellation. That marks a substantial return on CPPIB’s initial US$750-million investment in Calpine in 2018, which later increased to US$900-million through a follow-on investment. At the time, CPPIB and investment companies Access Industries and Energy Capital Partners Management LP took Calpine private for US$5.6-billion, believing it was undervalued.
Constellation will pay a total of US$4.5-billion in cash and 50 million shares of its stock valued at US$237.98 each, for a total equity value of US$11.9-billion. Constellation will also assume about US$12.7-billion of Calpine’s debt.
On paper, CPPIB’s gain on its investment increased further on Friday when Constellation’s share price shot up 25.2 per cent to close at US$305.19 on the Nasdaq stock exchange.“
Seems that Canada will be aligning with MAGA world in the future.
The US is set to become the 11th province of the confederation?
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The Canadian Conservatives are a pretty light version of American Republicans. If they turn out to be more MAGA in their policies than expected I expect they will be a one-term party in power. One strength of Canadian democracy is that few voters here are tied to one party: rather than slavishly voting for their party every election many switch from voting for one party to another from election to election.
There will be a big swing to the Canadian Conservatives in the 2025 election since there is a broad disenchantment with Trudeau. However Poilievre will need to perform to win a second term.
His main slogan is to “Axe the Tax” meaning to get rid of carbon taxes. What he fails to mention is that it is a revenue neutral tax to change peoples’ behaviour: taxpayers receive an income tax rebate to offset the tax. He never mentions the second aspect which should disappear if carbon taxes disappear. Will be interesting how he handles that aspect when voters realize the carbon tax is only one half of the equation.
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That’s your take from the article? Read it again.
A price on emissions only works to prevent climate change when everyone around the world is doing it. And that is not happening in the slightest. So why the hell are we doing it? And it’s even more hilarious that Canada is doing this when one of our main economic drivers is oil production. I find it amusing that rural canadians, who have to use a car, have to pay a carbon tax to save the planet. It doesn’t even have an impact in the aggregate, primarily because all the largest economies don’t have such a tax. This is like taxing 1% of the middle class to save an insolvent country. In the end, this is just a tax redistribution from Canadians (and businesses) who emit to those who don’t, but it has no real impact on climate change.